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KYPRIANOS M494

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

P. Würzburg inv. 42
Würzburg, Universität 42

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-21: Binding, silencing curse against Semne daughter of Coron for Victor son of Koheu.
2. Vo l. 1: Name (?) and unfinished drawing (same as recto)

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 391).

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 901 – 1000
Date notes:

Brunsch 1978: p. 151.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/receive/WrzPapyri_schrift_00000270

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Paper

Dimensions (cm): Height: 14.7 Width: 11.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Brunsch (1978: p. 151)

Folding pattern:

8 vertical creases (?), 2 horizontal creases (?).

State of preservation:

Complete, minor damage.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each recto and verso, but verso is abandoned attempt at recto text. 21 lines on recto, 1 lines and image on verso.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Würzburg, Universität

Collection History:

Purchased by Friedrich Prym through U. Wilcken in the early twentieth century, alongside various papyri in Greek, Egyptian (including Demotic and Coptic, and a Book fo the Dead, presumably in Traditional Egyptian) and Arabic (Brunsch 1978: p. 151).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 369
Collection website: https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/receive/WrzPapyri_schrift_00000270

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Brunsch, Wolfgang. “Ein koptischer Bindezauber.” Enchoria 8 (1978): 151-157.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 209, no. 102.

Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: I testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, II.18.5, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 3722, no. 27.


General:

Gill, Ann-Katrin. The hieratic ritual books of Pawerem (P. BM EA 10252 and P. BM EA 10081) from the late 4th century BC. Wiesbaden, 2019, p. 595-596.


Trismegistos ID:

99598

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic

102

Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

122

AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (5/12/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (16/9/2019); MPS (28/8/2020); KD (12/4/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M494," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m494. Accessed on 05/05/2024

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